Paul Meehl Has Suggested That When Clinicians Mistakenly Pay Attention

Multiple Choice

Paul Meehl has suggested that when clinicians mistakenly pay attention to vague,superficial,or stereotyped statements by clients,and fail to pay to attention to subtler but more important evidence,they are victims of the cognitive error he has labeled the

A) cognitive dissonance effect.
B) unreliability bias.
C) Barnum effect.
D) diagnostic fallibility crisis.